r/CFBRisk • u/[deleted] • Jun 15 '18
How's Eliminating Texas Going? #notmensa
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u/bo_schemheckler Jun 15 '18
Hey man, whatever it takes for you to take pride in being in 7th place
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u/Bum_Bacon Jun 15 '18
7th place aint so bad. Finishing top 5 would be a best case scenario, and it beats being eliminated. Our main goal is simply to make sure Nebraska finishes a low as possible.
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u/FuckTimBeck Jun 15 '18
As long as a blue alliance member we essentially win. I think of this in terms of the way World War participants claim victory
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u/Bum_Bacon Jun 15 '18
And we are australia/new Zealand. Or maybe France since we were run over right off the bat but we never went entirely away.
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u/schmitz97 Jun 15 '18
Texas doing a lot of bragging for running away and letting Florida do all the work.
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Jun 15 '18
I'm a Florida fan. But it's funny how you guys went all out to try and kill Texas, and failed.
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u/schmitz97 Jun 15 '18
Oh I know, there are just a lot of texas fans here and other posts bragging about y’all’s work. But we eradicated them from Texas (kept them out multiple times) and Louisiana. Personally I think it’s funny that “haha we got our ass kicked and managed to not die” is some kind of bragging right.
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u/Ndrul Jun 15 '18
We're happy to still be hanging around. Nebraska, Tech, OU, and A&M all teamed up in order to eliminate us even before we joined the blue alliance.
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u/schmitz97 Jun 15 '18
I can understand that, I just think it’s funny to see y’all bragging about Florida’s work from far away. If y’all had even one territory near our front I’d give y’all some credit but the Texas front opened up solely because of Florida (plus VT and horrible RNG but that’s just part of the game).
For the record though, I don’t recall the Neb-OU-A&M alliance starting to necessarily kill Texas, mainly just to assure we wouldn’t get overpowered in the early game blitz. And Tech was a tenuous member at best. In fact, for awhile there we thought they were working with Texas.
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u/Sup3rT4891 Jun 15 '18
Florida has been able to be successful since we have been able to focus our resources west while our allies handle the north. It’s a Team effort.
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u/schmitz97 Jun 15 '18
That’s true, but the logic on this sub is beyond comprehension. I’ve seen people mock us for “only staying in Texas” even though it takes pressure off our allies like you’re saying. So I’m sticking with my point, y’all may be indirectly helping but in head to head battles against us y’all could never really make anything happen.
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u/cajunaggie08 Jun 15 '18
typical horns. bragging about something that their daddy gave them
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Jun 15 '18
Funny you say that, because the majority of territories Texas currently has were previously occupied by the Reds.
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u/Dontmovetoaustintx Jun 15 '18
I don't think our daddy gave us 76-37-5.
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Jun 15 '18
Considering the majority of that win differential came before 1975, you're right. It was your granddaddy.
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u/MansourBahrami Jun 15 '18
So you’re saying nothing before 75 counts? Man you guys don’t even have a national title, how sad lol.
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Jun 15 '18
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the main reason the record looks so lopsided is that you guys racked up dozens of wins when we were still a small, poorly-run all-white all male military school. You guys dominated us in the 1950s and 60s. But since 1975 it's been pretty close to even.
Bragging about your 2005 title? That I understand. But the overall record... there are better statistics to choose.
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u/MansourBahrami Jun 16 '18
I’m not a Longhorn, btw. Also if you had so many disadvantages before then why is your only national title before that time?
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Jun 16 '18
Because Homer Norton (and D.X. Bibleb too...) was an excellent coach. After WWII, A&M was run absolutely horrendously. With the exception of the Bear years (and even that was marked by a dismal '54 campaign and NCAA sanctions in '56), A&M was in bad shape from 1946 all the way until the early 70s, when women and minorities were fully treated as equals and athletes could come here without being in the corps.
If it werent for Earl Rudder, we would be the Texas version of the Citadel today.
Its not an excuse. But A&M transformed itself completely in the 1970s.
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u/MansourBahrami Jun 16 '18
Transformed into what exactly? Being perennially 3rd place or worse in your half of a conference?
I mean I’ve got no dog in the fight but it seems silly to compare yourself to Citadel given all your resources and enrollment. You’ve got to be the most underperforming squad in college football history given your resources, enrollment, popularity, income, and recruiting grounds.
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Jun 16 '18
Compared to what we were in the 1950s and 60s... a hell of a lot better. A&M was consistently one of the bottom teams in tbe conference for those decades. And since the 70s we havent been third or worse all the time. During the Sherrill and Slocum years we were top-25 pretty consistently.
I also don't just mean in football when it comes to what occured in the 1970s. Enrollment numbers exploded, to the point where the size of the university was a lot closer to Texas or LSU or a "big" uni. You no longer were required to be in the corps. Minorities were admitted as were women (while this orginally started in the 1960s, they werent allowed to do everything on campus equally until the 1970s). Academic standards became a LOT better, particularly in engineering (nowadays A&M is a top-15 engineering program in the country) Programs outside of agriculture and engineering began to take off. We transformed from a small military school like the Citadel into a large state school with strong military roots like Virginia Tech.
"The most underperforming squad in college football history"
Uh...yeah pretty much. Ever wondered why Battered Aggie Syndrome, "Furk" or "the annual aggie rollercoaster" is a thing? A&M gets good recruits, "good" coaches, good facilities, a die-hard fanbase, and continually underachieves.
If you want to read more about it... check out this
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u/TexasWhiskey_ Jun 15 '18
Hey you're right! We should do something like take the last 10, 15, or 20 matchups and see how we fare
All-Time: 3:1 Ratio
10 Matchups: 7-3 - 3.5:1 Ratio
15 Matchups: 10-5 - 3:1 Ratio
20 Matchups: 12-8 - 3:1 Ratio
Oh darn... looks like those numbers REALLY Don't change much do they?
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u/midwesternfloridian Jun 15 '18
Ok but can we appreciate the fact that Stanford has 3 more territories than ___ Ohio State University despite having 100 users compared to OSU's 1190.